When I first moved into my own place, I was excited but also overwhelmed. I didn’t have the budget for fancy renovations or designer furniture, yet I wanted my home to feel polished, cozy, and yes a little bit expensive. I remember staring at my bare living room, thinking: How do people make their spaces look so high-end without spending a fortune?

When I moved into my first home, I thought owning a toolbox meant having a hammer, a couple of nails, and maybe a screwdriver. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I’ll never forget the first weekend when a curtain rod came loose, the bathroom faucet started dripping, and a cabinet hinge gave out all in the same 24 hours!

I remember a night last summer when a sudden windstorm hit our neighborhood. I had just gone to bed when I heard the unmistakable sound of branches scraping the windows…

A few years ago, I decided to put my home on the market. I was confident it would sell quickly after all, it was in a great neighborhood. But after…

I never thought much about my energy bills. They came every month, I paid them, and that was that. But one winter, I opened my heating bill, and my jaw dropped. It was double what I had paid the previous year. That’s when I realized: I needed to make some changes.